Six more weeks till Winter. Or so the story goes told by Alaskan Natives and sourdoughs alike. When the fireweed has bloomed all the way to the top, we have six more weeks till the snow flies. So far this break up and then into summer, we’ve had some successes….and some failures. That’s pretty typical though. The garden is doing well but could be doing better thanks to the late
So now here we are, in the middle of our second spring back in Fairbanks, Alaska after a reasonably mild winter. In late March we started our seeds, mostly tomatoes, a mixture of beans and a few herbs. This, I knew going into it, would be challenging since we would be going on a weeklong vacation in May. Trying to keep little seedlings going for a week without any attention
The nice thing about vacations when you have a garden is you get the wonderful treat of seeing how your garden did in your absence. All in all I’m pretty happy with our progress. Something ate every single little leaf off our parsley so that bit the dust. I’m betting it was a neighborhood squirrel. Our lemon balm obviously didn’t like the heat as a good portion of it died
Today we planned to run to the gym since we haven’t been there in decades however after breakfast we began talking about all that needed to be done with the yard, then we got caught up planting, cleaning up, etc so we never actually made it to the gym. Good news is that we got loads done!!! Early this morning we took some advice from Ray at Youtube. Well that
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